pennsylvania
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LeBron James, Isiah Thomas Among NBA Greats With Plenty to Say About the Presidential Election
Prior to the presidential election, NBA players were extremely vocal in stressing the importance of American citizens exercising their right to vote. But of all the players in the league, there’s probably no one who’s been more committed to that goal than Lakers superstar LeBron James. Not only did he launch More Than a Vote…
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Voters of Color Are Helping Flip GOP Strongholds. We Know Exactly Who Should Get Their Flowers for That
There are many who will scramble to take credit—or to diminish—the surge of Democratic votes that flipped Wisconsin and Michigan blue and are on the verge of similarly flipping Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, states that helped elect Donald Trump in 2016. No matter how they arrived—be it through the mail, in lengthy early voting lines,…
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Wait, Is Trump’s Campaign Encouraging Pennsylvania Voters to Mail-In Late Ballots? Sure Sounds Like It
I don’t know if the Trump campaign is trying to prove a point or trying to steal an election, but a campaign message to Wisconsin voters was looking for volunteers to call Pennsylvania voters in hopes of urging them to mail in absentee ballots by Friday, a desperate attempt to either expose a perceived flaw…
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Biden Takes Leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania, Coming Within a Tick’s Toenail of Becoming Next President
Can you hear that noise? It is the faint cries of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) getting punched in the stomach by an enraged Trump, who realizes that his political life is coming to an end as Biden takes leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia, moving within a gnat’s pubic hair of becoming the next…
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Day 3 of the Perpetual Queasiness That Is the Presidential Election
It’s Thursday. The presidential election was Tuesday. Here is what we know: Nothing and everything. We know that there are enough scenarios that exist in which both current President Shaymus Von Spittle and former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden could be president. We also know that America is still fucked because Democrats couldn’t take over…
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Waiting on the Mail: Millions of Mail-In Ballots Remain Uncounted as Legal Challenges Loom
As of Wednesday afternoon, the presidential election was still very much ongoing, with millions of ballots still being counted in crucial battleground states. In total, voters mailed in nearly 64 million ballots prior to Election Day, spurred in large part by concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, reports the New York Times. But it may take…
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Bags of Undelivered Mail Found At Pennsylvania Postal Worker's Home
Multiple bags of undelivered mail were found at postal worker Sean Troesch’s Pennsylvania home by special agents with the U.S Postal Service. According to CNN, “USPS OIG Special Agents recovered several different classes of mail, including business mail, flats, and a small amount of first class mail,” Special Agent Scott Balfour told CNN in a statement.…
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Professor at Duquesne University On Leave for Using N-Word, Encouraging Students to Do So as Well
White people really stay looking for excuses to use the N-word. A university professor in Pennsylvania is on leave for not only using it in a class but giving students permission to do so as well. According to NBC News, Duquesne University placed educational psychology professor Gary Shank on leave after a video was shared…
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Pennsylvania Governor Wants to Legalize Marijuana to Help With COVID-19 Recovery Effort
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Tom Wolf included marijuana legalization as part of his legislative agenda for the state’s COVID-19 economy recovery plan. CNN reports that Gov. Wolf has asked the state legislature to work towards legalizing marijuana. A press release outlining his proposed plan states that 50 percent of marijuana sales be directed towards historically disadvantaged…
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Shots Fired at Black Activists Marching to DC For MLK Event
Shots were fired at a group of organizers marching from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., on Monday night. ABC News reports that the group was headed to D.C. for the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks,” march. Frank “Nitty” Sensabaugh, a Milwaukee activist and one of the organizers for the march, told WJAC-TV that the shooting…